Access

[Margie]

We write personalized databases for schools. There are many schools who still use Mac's and can not affored to switch over. Is Microsoft developing a way for Mac's to use Access is if not why. There is a need for it.

 

[Rick B]

I'm pretty sure that Microsoft is not investing time or effort rewriting
their software to work on a totally difffernt platform. Apple mahe the
choice to be incompatible with 90% of the computers proiduced. Why would
Microsoft try to overcome Apple's short-sitedness?

I do believe that Apple has cards and software that allow them to run
PC-based applications. when I worked with Apples 10 years ago, you could
buy addons that allowed them to run DOS programs. Not sure if that
technology has been maintained.


Rick B


We write personalized databases for schools. There are many schools who
still use Mac's and can not affored to switch over. Is Microsoft developing
a way for Mac's to use Access is if not why. There is a need for it.

 

[John Spencer (MVP)]

Take a look at Virtual PC (but that only runs on later version of Macs and is slow).

Or use a cross-platform compatible product such as 4th Dimension or FileMaker.

Cause from what I've seen, Access ain't going to happen for anything but Windows
based PC's

 

[Ernie]

-----Original Message-----
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft is not investing time or effort rewriting
their software to work on a totally difffernt platform. Apple mahe the
choice to be incompatible with 90% of the computers proiduced. Why would
Microsoft try to overcome Apple's short-sitedness?

I do believe that Apple has cards and software that allow them to run
PC-based applications. when I worked with Apples 10 years ago, you could
buy addons that allowed them to run DOS programs. Not sure if that
technology has been maintained.


Rick B


We write personalized databases for schools. There are many schools who
still use Mac's and can not affored to switch over. Is Microsoft developing
a way for Mac's to use Access is if not why. There is a need for it.


.

Be nice Rick.

Apple was around about 2 years before Microsoft was
formed. Apple also had a GUI years before MS decided to
steal it.

It was Microsoft who decided not to be compatible with
Apple, not the other way around. Just because MS found and
exploited a nich which vaulted them to the top of the
market, is no reason that everybody has to play ball with
them.

The problem is that the underlying operating systems were
designed for totally incompatible hardware architecture.
Because of this a program designed for one cpu won't run
on another. You have to go back to the beginning and re-
design it from the ground up to work on another platform.
This is not something that MS wants to do.

Margie, go to your local Apple retailer and see if they
have (or know of) any conversion programs available. You
might be able to just copy your dbs to a form compatible
with apple/mac's. The only other alternative would be to
rewrite your dbs in a program that is compatible with
mac's.

 

[Ernie again]

-----Original Message-----
allow
them to run

Be nice Rick.

Apple was around about 2 years before Microsoft was
formed. Apple also had a GUI years before MS decided to
steal it.

It was Microsoft who decided not to be compatible with
Apple, not the other way around. Just because MS found and
exploited a nich which vaulted them to the top of the
market, is no reason that everybody has to play ball with
them.

The problem is that the underlying operating systems were
designed for totally incompatible hardware architecture.
Because of this a program designed for one cpu won't run
on another. You have to go back to the beginning and re-
design it from the ground up to work on another platform.
This is not something that MS wants to do.

Margie, go to your local Apple retailer and see if they
have (or know of) any conversion programs available. You
might be able to just copy your dbs to a form compatible
with apple/mac's. The only other alternative would be to
rewrite your dbs in a program that is compatible with
mac's.
.

Of course with the backing of companies like IBM,
companies like Microsoft were able to get away with a lot
back then. Who could have known then that MS would garner
a 90% market share.